Decorative Arts & Textiles Archive
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Olympic Fashions: Elegance in an Age of Crisis
Posted on February 7, 2014Today, the exhibition Elegance in an Age of Crisis: Fashions of the 1930s opens at The Museum at FIT. The show looks at women’s clothing and menswear, from a global […] -
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On Creating Facture, the National Gallery of Art’s New Conservation Journal: Privileged Intimacy with Great Works
Posted on January 9, 2014Daphne Barbour and Melanie Gifford– Those of us who spend our time closely studying works of art know that shiver of recognition: the moment we realize that we’re looking […] -
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Sneak Peek from Stephen Houston, The Life Within: Classic Maya and the Matter of Permanence
Posted on January 8, 2014In March, we will publish a groundbreaking new book about Maya animism and how their belief system informed their choices in and uses of artistic materials. Renowned Mayanist scholar Stephen […] -
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Notes from the Field: Jewels by JAR at the Met
Posted on December 24, 2013Paris-based artist JAR creates works of sheer amazement and beauty. His jewelry is vibrantly colored, exotic and yet eminently fashionable in its use of both traditional and non-traditional metals and […] -
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Notes from the Field: The Medium is the Message
Posted on September 27, 2013View the New York Times ‘Interwoven Globe’ Exhibition Slide Show Follow @yaleARTbooks Interwoven Globe: The Worldwide Textile Trade, 1500-1800 tells a fascinating history of global textile design through the intertwined narratives […] -
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Available Now: Albers Interaction of Color App for iPad
Posted on July 25, 2013The wait for the Interaction of Color app for iPad is finally over. The full app, available now in the app store, is free to download, and allows you to sample Chapter 10, […] -
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Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Posted on March 5, 2013Follow @yaleARTbooks Edwardian Opulence: British Art at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century opens with Giovanni’s Boldini’s Portrait of a Lady, which features a popular society woman seated on an […]